Sharif Islam🐧🎸
Data Architect@Naturalis, Leiden, The Netherlands.
Biodiversity Informatics | FAIR data | Research Data Management | Distributed Systems| Open Source | Open Science 🐧
https://sharifislam.com
- Reposted by Sharif Islam🐧🎸it's not just that Mamdani is charming af (he is), it's that he is normalizing the idea that children are full members of society that we all share a collective responsibility for
- From @acyn.bsky.social (posted on X) "Reporter: Do any of you have a favorite animal? Child: My favorite one is a gold snake that can move. It has gold eyes, and it has a super-duper tail… Reporter: Mr. Mamdani, the second question for you. Mamdani: Yes. It’s also the golden snake."
- 🌿 New paper: "FAIR Digital Twins for biodiversity" Combining #DigitalTwins with #FAIR principles (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) addresses data fragmentation & model integration using #RO-Crate. Thanks to co-authors & BioDT team! @horizoneu.bsky.social 📄 doi.org/10.1038/s441...
- Reposted by Sharif Islam🐧🎸Some big diffs between citizen science observations (from iNaturalist) and specimen records (from digitised museum collections) - cit. sci records biased towards large inverts & exotic spp. Great MSc project with recommendations 🌏🧪@nzhymenoptera.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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- Reposted by Sharif Islam🐧🎸🌿 It’s #GivingTuesday! Help the Biodiversity Heritage Library take flight as we count down to independence on 1 Jan 2026. Your gift helps #GiveBHLWings – keeping 500 years of biodiversity knowledge open & accessible worldwide. #ILoveBHL 🧪 📖 🌏 💚 Donate now:
- Oh! The irony 😂
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- Love to hear your thought on this. @rdmpage.bsky.social @dshorthouse.bsky.social @debpaul.bsky.social 🦉 I wrote a post on treating species identifiers with the same rigour as enterprise entity resolution. Not a new idea but we have to think about the scale. www.linkedin.com/pulse/one-sp...
- bmd-project.eu/news/new-sur... The @bmd-project.eu is inviting Europe’s natural site managers to take part in a survey on the monitoring and analysis needs of protected and restored natural sites. #Biodiversity #Natura2000 @eea.europa.eu
- Reposted by Sharif Islam🐧🎸So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!
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- Jamaica set for post-Melissa payout but experts warn of limits to hurricane insurance.
- sadnewsletter.substack.com/p/when-neutr... The #Python Software Foundation recently had to pass on a US$1.5M grant from the National Science Foundation for PyPI maintenance. One condition of the funding was that the they drop any DEI efforts. My thoughts on this.
- Reposted by Sharif Islam🐧🎸If you take the time to read the whole Gates memo (which I did), the bulk of the content was mostly solid and encouraging. Really! It was the FRAME that was off--very off, from the first line. And when your framing is off, then how you make decisions and set priorities is off. THAT'S the problem.
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- Interesting study: the role of media and climate anxiety. Even though #biodiversity crisis has not been covered by the media the same way, I wonder how does this apply apply to understanding environmental issues in general? How can biodiversity research take into account the role of media/anxiety? 🌎
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- #Biodiversity data should not disappear when projects end but too often, it does. #LivingData2025 session talking about how we can properly ensure knowledge transfer and maintain continuity across research projects. 🧪🌏📚🧬
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- Reposted by Sharif Islam🐧🎸Most scientists are not great at communicating their science, says Dean Pentcheff #LivingData2025. #ScienceCommunication is effective when we use narratives. Tell your story. Then you’ll get into people’s hearts. #JaneGoodall
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- ontributions to biodiversity data in the Global South by Cristiana Serejo. #LivingData2025 "Nearly three thousand entomological type material images captured in the SiBBr Project were crucial for the digital preservation[...] since almost all physical specimens were destroyed in the 2018 fire."
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- Mathias Dillen from Meise Botanic Garden, Belgium talking about "MIDS in practice": Minimum Information about a Digital Specimen www.tdwg.org/community/cd... @dissco.bsky.social @tdwg.org #LivingData2025. 🧪🌏
- Elspeth Haston talking about MIDS: Minimum Information about a Digital Specimen "What is the status of global digitisation? MIDS as an institutional & global digitisation standard" #LivingData2025 🧪🌏 @dissco.bsky.social
- #LivingData2025 I am talking about (virtually) "Building and Serving FAIR Terms and Vocabularies for open Digital Specimen" part of "Data model for global implementation of open Digital Specimen & the status of specimen digitization" #FAIRdata 🧪🌏 @dissco.bsky.social
- importance of open documentation and #opensource practice. Towards a Common Language for Digital Specimens: Exploring the openDS Data Model #FAIRdata #biodiversity 🧪🌏 #LivingData2025
- "Towards a Common Language for Digital Specimens: Exploring the openDS Data Model". importance of links and relationships. #openDS #DigitalSpecimen @dissco.bsky.social 🧪🌏
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- Materials from my presentation "Implementing FAIR Digital Objects for Molecular and Traditional Taxonomy Integration" part of "Integrating DNA Reference Databases and Molecular Taxon Concepts in Biodiversity Databases" #LivingData2025 🧪🌏🧬 @biogeneurope.bsky.social github.com/bge-barcodin...
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- #LivingData2025 Sam Leeflang begins the session on openDS: Data model for global implementation of open #DigitalSpecimen & the status of specimen digitization @dissco.bsky.social 🧪🌏 #biodiversity #FAIRdata
- Reposted by Sharif Islam🐧🎸Presenting FAIR actions from @ergabiodiv.bsky.social and @biogeneurope.bsky.social at #LivingData2025 in Bogota
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- Reposted by Sharif Islam🐧🎸This remains the funniest way to hear about an internet outage, though.
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- An important study by Heidi Imker examining 9 life science databases. These resources that are critical to global scientific research are constantly on the brink of collapse. expertise. link: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1.... I also wrote a short comment: www.linkedin.com/posts/sharif...
- “Wait, I heard you found a whole other country and thought it was me. Is that true? That’s so embarrassing. Why are you obsessed with me?” 😂
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- trying to explain Biodiversity Data Space for Biodiversity Meets Data project 😱 @bmd-project.eu #dataspace #BMDexplained
- @bmd-project.eu The BMD project is looking for a project manager. BMD scales up on high-throughput biodiversity monitoring with camera traps, audio devices and e-DNA sampling across Europe, and develops together with its stakeholder communities (#Natura2000)👇 www.naturalis.nl/en/about-us/...
- @dissco.bsky.social demo is back. check out the latest one: dissco.tech/2025/09/16/d...
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- www.linkedin.com/pulse/google... Google has released AlphaEarth Foundations — a model that transforms multi-sensor Earth Observation data into compact embeddings. What does this mean for biodiversity research and monitoring?I wrote a short commentary on this.
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